48,442 Philadelphia Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

Mangel's department store, business at 11th and Chestnut Sts., Philade...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women workers at quartermaster depot. "Making sergeants." This woman w...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Swedish-American executive of the SKF roll...

Public domain image of coupe, engagement, family, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General Knudsen congratulates a production soldier. Lieutenant General...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women workers at quartermaster corps. Women workers of all racial grou...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Expert machinist on armaments. Boring and facing a setter fuze in one ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Caption edited by agency. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United Sta... More

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Women order assemblers in front of seed ra...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Woman eating a sandwich at lunch hour at t...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Miss Natalie O'Donald, a garage attendant ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bulk storage of seeds at the W. Atlee Burp...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Weighing outgoing mail at the W. Atlee Bur...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Typing on flatbed typewriter at the W. Atl...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

On many Pennsylvania trains in the Philadelphia area, trainmen are rel...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Playing tennis at Fairmont Park

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Women checking filled orders at the W. Atl...

Public domain photograph of pharmacy, convenience store, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Cocktai...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Detail ...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Cocktai...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Robinson, business at 1020 Market St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ent...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bernstein at Robin Hood Dell, Fairmont Park, Philadelphia. Photographe...

From: Photographs Series Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

B.F. Goodrich, business at Erie Ave. and I St., Philadephia, Pennsylva...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Stouffer's restaurant, Lancaster Ave., Philadelphia. Corridor

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 133, North side Craid Road, west of Ea...

Significance: Building 133 is associated with the expansion of Frankford Arsenal during World War II. Survey number: HAER PA-74-AV Building/structure dates: 1942 Initial Construction Building/structure dates... More

Church of St. James the Less, Sexton's House, 3200 West Clearfield Str...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Germantown Historical Society Area Study, Conyngham-Hacker House, 5214...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[President Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter on television during 1st presi...

Contact sheet folder caption: Ford-Carter TV Debate from TV screen. TOH. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

[President Gerald Ford shakes hands with supporters at the 1st preside...

Contact sheet folder caption: Pres. Ford's arrival in Phil., Pa. for 1st debate w/Carter, 9/28/76 [i.e., 9/23/76]. MST. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for refe... More

Statue of Christopher Columbus in Marconi Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylv...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

A young Amish woman from Lancaster County serves fresh-cooked soft pre...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Poster for the U.S. Centennial Exposition in 1876, which brought thous...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Market Street Elevated Railway, 52nd Street Station, Intersection of M...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carol M. Highsmith - Liberty Place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Reading Terminal builder Charles McCaul prepared this lithograph of Ph...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Second National Bank, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Founded after the War of 1812 when it was realized that... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Prominent are City Hall, atop which rests the statue of... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1990s. Title, date, subject... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1990s. Title, date, subject... More

Pennsylvania Convention Center, created when the venerable Reading Ter...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Restoration work at Reading Terminal and Market in the mid-1990s, Phil...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

F.W. de Klerk, left, the last president of apartheid-era South Africa,...

de Klerk and Mandela were in Philadelphia in 1993, to receive America's Liberty Medal for effecting the transition to black majority rule. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original ... More

Front exterior, U.S. Custom House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Building begun in 1932 under the WPA program. Opened in 1934. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Ritter & Shay did the final major work. Title, date, and subject note... More

Interior entrance hall, U.S. Custom House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Building begun in 1932 under the WPA program. Opened in 1934. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Ritter & Shay did the final major work. Title, date, and subject note... More

Bas-relief sculpture, Robert N.C. Nix Federal Building, Philadelphia, ...

Architect: Harry Sternfeld. Art Deco style. Built in 1937. Limestone with granite base. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by t... More

John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum, Darby Creek canoe trai...

"March 2002." At head of panel title: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Includes location map (inset). Text, index (part), and ill. on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Sculpture "Color of Metals" on corridor wall at Philadelphia Veterans ...

Artist: Sam Gilliam, 1998. Mixed materials, 8 x 16 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cr... More

Mummers Parade on New Year's day, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Public domain image of a military forces, uniform, officer, military commander, European armies, free to use, no copyright restrictions -Picryl description

Mummers Parade on New Year's day, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Title information, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038-6). Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Tiny post office at the site of the annual Neshoba County Fair

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The fair is also known as Mississippi's Giant House Party and is the nation's largest campground fair featuring agricultural, politica... More

W.H. Drayton / drawn from the life by Du Simitier in Philadelphia ; en...

William Henry Drayton, head-and-shoulders portrait, left profile, in medallion. Illus. from: Portraits des généraux, ministres et magistrats [...]. Paris : 1781, no. 10. After a drawing by Pierre Eugène Du Simi... More

Mrs. Wood as Amina in the opera La Sonnambula. From the original paint...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Lehman & Duval.

[Philadelphia Exchange] - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Fenderich.

Commodore Chs. Stewart / From life on stone by A. Newsam ; P. S. Duval...

Portrait of Commodore Charles Stewart, half-length, facing left, with vignette below showing "Capture of H.M. Ships Cyane & Levant by the U.S. Frigate Constitution." 354 U.S. Copyright Office.

John Q. Adams, 6th President of the United States / On stone by A. New...

John Quincy Adams, bust portrait, facing right. Copyright by C.S. Williams.

The Soldier's vision - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Philadelphia Sanitary Fair, June 1864, Pennsylvania, 19th century ster...

Photograph shows a display draped with flags and other items at the fair sponsored by the United States Sanitary Commission. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanf... More

Our Saviour from the only authentic likeness of our Saviour cut on an ...

Print shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of Jesus Christ. No. 2596. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Stamped on lower right on verso: Library of Congress, Division of Prints, No. R4031. ... More

S.D. Sollers & Co. manufacturers of children's fine shoes, Philadelphi...

Advertisement for shoes showing fashionably dressed children next to shoe display. 2505E(?) U.S. Copyright Office.

[Looking up Broad Street from Spruce Street]

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Looking up Broad Street toward City Hall, statue of William Penn visible atop, sidewalks teeming with activity. Inscribed on verso: P 99. Lithograph published in Philadelphia Art All... More

Jenny Wade - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Benjamin Rush Birthplace, Red Lion Road, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...

Significance: Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a member of a socially prominent Philadelphia family, was born in this house. Survey number: HABS PA-1796

University of Pennsylvania, Men's Dormitories, Spruce Street, Philadel...

Survey number: HABS PA-1645 Public domain photograph of Victorian style building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aurora borealis polka - Public domain American sheet music, 1885

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philade...

Significance: The Wagner Free Institute of Science exists as a rare, if not entirely peerless, relic of American Victorian educational-institutional architecture. The Institute remains essentially unaltered in... More

Funeral march "Siegfried" from Gt̲terdm̃merung - American sheet music,...

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philade...

Significance: The Wagner Free Institute of Science exists as a rare, if not entirely peerless, relic of American Victorian educational-institutional architecture. The Institute remains essentially unaltered in... More

Funeral march "Siegfried" from Gt̲terdm̃merung - American sheet music,...

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philade...

Significance: The Wagner Free Institute of Science exists as a rare, if not entirely peerless, relic of American Victorian educational-institutional architecture. The Institute remains essentially unaltered in... More

Mamma's budget, or, Daily reading for children

"By the Child's Friend." Added t.p. signed Bonner, sc., possibly G.W. Bonner. In original publisher's binding: blind-stamped white cloth on boards, gold stamped on spine. LC copy is a copyright deposit: No. 499... More

Spring rose mazurka - Public domain American sheet music, 1885

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Provident Life & Trust Company Bank, 407-409 Chestnut Street, Philadel...

Public domain photograph of bank building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Provident Life & Trust Company Bank, 407-409 Chestnut Street, Philadel...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Provident Life & Trust Company Bank, 407-409 Chestnut Street, Philadel...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Naval Base Philadelphia-Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Drydock No. 2, Le...

Significance: Drydock No. 2 was built during the period of rapid technological change in naval shipbuilding. The original plan was for a timber drydock, but it gave the government an option of changing to requi... More

The great Cleveland panic of 1893. Philadelphia. Published by The Amer...

Tariff tract No. 4, 1896. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 160,... More

Valley Green Inn, Wissahickon Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County...

Survey number: HABS PA-1719 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Marshall's Court Area Study, John Elliot House, 407 Marshall's Court, ...

Survey number: HABS PA-1345-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, 711-721 Catharine Street, Philadelphi...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

When the rest of the world don't want you go back

International Exhibition of 1876, Ohio Building, Belmont Avenue, Phila...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 217, Bridge & Tacony Streets, Philadel...

Significance: Constructed in 1899 as a boiler house for the new small arms cartridge factory and introduced into Building 215 in 1898, Building 2`7 is associated with the modest expansion of Frankford Arsenal t... More

Gloria Dei (Church), 929 South Water Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphi...

Significance: Some of the materials used in this building were brought from the earlier Swedish Church at Tinicum, built in the 17th century, and Gloria Dei was erected by the same carpenters and bricklayers wh... More

Tacony, Disston Precision, Incorporated, On a site within block bounde...

Significance: Disston Precision, Incorporated, is the last remaining physical and institutional vestige of Henry Disston's Keystone Saw Works. For about a century, Disston saws were among the finest made anywh... More

Tacony, Disston Precision, Incorporated, On a site within block bounde...

Significance: Disston Precision, Incorporated, is the last remaining physical and institutional vestige of Henry Disston's Keystone Saw Works. For about a century, Disston saws were among the finest made anywh... More

Tacony, Disston Precision, Incorporated, On a site within block bounde...

Significance: Disston Precision, Incorporated, is the last remaining physical and institutional vestige of Henry Disston's Keystone Saw Works. For about a century, Disston saws were among the finest made anywh... More

Tacony, Disston Precision, Incorporated, On a site within block bounde...

Significance: Disston Precision, Incorporated, is the last remaining physical and institutional vestige of Henry Disston's Keystone Saw Works. For about a century, Disston saws were among the finest made anywh... More